Improvement in car-replacers



A. WHITTEMDRE.

, Car-Replacers.

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IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-REPLACERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,135, dated August 26, 1873 application led February 7, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos WEITTEMORE, of Cambridgeport, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Oar-Beplacers, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of this Specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved car-replacer. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

Similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention is an improvement on a carreplacer for street-cars as well as steam railroad-cars, which consists of a V-shaped web having flanges formed on its edges, as explained in the schedule annexed to Letters Patent numbered 97 ,204. The objection to this replacer is that the edge against which the liange of a displaced wheel must strike in order to get such wheel upon the web between 'the flanges of the replacers is always in the line of the said web, and does not accommodate itself to varying heights, so as to form an inclined plane leading up to that portion of the web which rests on the rail; consequently, when the flange of a wheel strikes Such replacer, the natural tendency is to slide it along on the rail or tilt it out of its place. The nature of my invention consists, rst, in the employment of a jointed inclined plane in `combination with a flanged web; second, in

the combination of a bow handle with the replacer for conveniently applying it to the rails and removing it therefrom.

The following description will enable others skilled in the art to understand it.

In the accompanying drawings, A A represent anges, which are formed on the edges of a V-shaped plate or web, B. These flanges extend above and below the plane of the web B forthe purpose of rendering the replacer reversible, and adapting it to all the require ments of the case. The flange A is intended to fit against the head of a rail, C, as represented in the drawings, and the flange A, which is the widest, is intended to rest on the ground, and to serve as the guide for directing a displaced wheel upon the track. This replacer I improve by the employment of an apron or inclined plane, B', which is applied in a space cut out of the widest end of the web B by means of a pivot at s. (See Fig. 2.) The free end of this apron will drop upon the ground when the replacer is adjusted to a rail and accommodate itself thereto, and form an inclined plane for allowing a displaced car- Wheel to roll freely upon the web B, after which the wheel will be directed upon the rail C by the flange A.

For the purpose of facilitating the manipulation of the replacer I provide it with a bow handle, a, which may be cast into or other- `wise affixed to it at or near the middle of its as described.

AMOS WHITTEMORE. Witnesses:

J. N. CAMPBELL, JAMES MARTIN, Jr. 

